Rodney Maxwell wrote: > The following are apparently legal Python syntactically: > L[1:3, 8:10] > L[1, ..., 5:-2] > > But they don't seem to work on lists: >>>> l = [0,1,2,3] >>>> l[0:2,3] > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > TypeError: list indices must be integers >>>> l[...] > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > TypeError: list indices must be integers > > So where is this extended slicing used?
numpy for multidimensional arrays. http://numpy.scipy.org/ -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
